Its time for the weekly grading of your team. On a rating of A-F how well did your team do this week?

Considering the fact that the Yankees are still "the walking wounded", and have been able to stay on top of the division, I would have to give them an "A". The division, as we can see, is still the deepest in baseball.

I'm gonna give the Red Sox an A-

They won five of six games and won both series, sweeping the Twins and being now only half a game behind the Yankees. Lackey pitched a one-hitter through six innings yesterday and Clay Buchholz is still undefeated, entering this week with a 1.78 ERA.

Now they face a weak White Sox team who could take only two out of four against the now overrated Angels before they come back home to play for the last four times this season against the AL Central leading Indians.

edit: i should mention that lester is undefeated as well with a 2.72 ERA and a complete game one-hitter a week and a half ago.

C-, The Seattle Mariners nearly swept the Yankees, but a botched call by the ump allowed the inning to go on and the Mariners lost. The next series against the Indians they got swept in a 4 game series, 3 of those wins coming by Walkoff. The reason im not giving a lower grade is that they were really close in a lot of these games and didn't do as bad as the record indicated.

I back up the A on the Indians. They have played great.

However my Brewers get an F. Epic fail. 2-5 on the week on a 2-8 road trip.

What would usually be a D reverts to an F on managerial and player incompetence.

A. Rangers went 5-2. Took two out of three from Oakland, and three of four from Detroit. We improved to 29-15, and have the best record in baseball.

Red Sox get an A for taking the series in Tampa/St. Pete and sweeping the Twins in Minnesota.

Detroit Tigers E

D. Slip, slip, slippin down the standings. Didn't hit at all this week and Ned Yost is still a horrible manager that is 30 years behind the times.

F

dropped both games in against the Blue Jays in Toronto

dropped three out of four to the Rockies in Denver

Braves get a B for a solid start to the home stand.